The new buzz word from Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign apparently is “uncertainy,” a word that was used by each Coloradan on a conference call today to talk about President Obama’s “hostility” to business.

U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, said the president’s health-care plan is creating “uncertainty.”

Mike Anson of of Anson Excavating and Pipe in Craig said, “It seems like there’s a lot of uncertainy in the world, and we just can’t get anyone to spend any money.”

And Scott Cook, a car dealer in northwest Colorado, said the biggest thing is consumer confidence.

“There is so much uncertainly right no everyone is in neutral,” he said. “We can adjust to bad news better than we can adjust to uncertainty.”

The Romney campaign arranged the conference call in Colorado and other swing states to talk about their claim that President Obama is “fundamentally hostile to job creators, both in his rhetoric and in his policies.”

Joey Bunch has been a reporter for 28 years, including the last 12 at The Denver Post. For various newspapers he has covered the environment, water issues, politics, civil rights, sports and the casino industry.